2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

OWW photos from 2012

Old World Wisconsin, the Midwest's largest outdoor living history museum, showcases the life of immigrants to the State of Wisconsin in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is owned and operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society and occupies nearly 600 acres in the rolling hills of the Kettle Moraine area of Southeast Wisconsin near the small village of Eagle. It includes nine ethnic farms plus a village with a blacksmith, cobbler, general store, church, inn, shoe shop, and several residences. Interpreters dress in period clothing and go about their daily chores of farming, cooking, laundry, shoe making, blacksmithing, etc. The 40 some odd historic builldings on the site were moved to Old World from various locations in the early 1970s. The museum was opened to the public as the bicentennial project of the State of Wisconsin in 1976.
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An interpreter splits wood for kindling at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area.
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An interpreter splits wood for kindling at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area.

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  • An interpreter harvests onions at the Fossebrekke farn in the Norwegian area of Old World Wisconsin.
  • An interpreter prepares dinner at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area of Old World.
  • An interpreter prepares dinner at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area of Old World.
  • An interpreter prepares dinner at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area of Old World.
  • A blacksmith talks to a group of schoolchildren in the Viollage area of Old World Wisconsin.
  • A blacksmith talks to a group of schoolchildren in the Viollage area of Old World Wisconsin.
  • A blacksmith demonstrates use of a Schnitzelbank (wood shaver) in the Grotelueschen blacksmith shop in Old World Wisconsin.
  • A blacksmith demonstrates use of a Schnitzelbank (wood shaver) in the Grotelueschen blacksmith shop in Old World Wisconsin.
  • A blacksmith demonstrates use of a Schnitzelbank (wood shaver) in the Grotelueschen blacksmith shop in Old World Wisconsin.
  • A blacksmith demonstrates use of a Schnitzelbank (wood shaver) in the Grotelueschen blacksmith shop in Old World Wisconsin.
  • An interpreter works with a wood clamp in the Grotelueschen blacksmith shop in Old World Wisconsin.
  • A blacksmith demonstrates use of a Schnitzelbank (wood shaver) in the Grotelueschen blacksmith shop in Old World Wisconsin.
  • Objects offered for sale in St. Peter's church in the Village area of Old World Wisconsin.
  • An interpreter heads towards Mary Hafford's house in Crossroads village.
  • Washing "machine" and laundry tubs at Mary Hafford's house in Crossroads Village.
  • An interpreter pauses by the pantry in the living quarters of the Sisel shoe shop in Crossroads village.
  • An interpreter splits wood for kindling at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area.
  • An interpreter splits wood for kindling at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area.
  • An interpreter splits wood for kindling at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area.
  • An interpreter prepares dinner at the Fossebrekke farm in the Norwegian area of Old World.
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